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I contacted a distributor here in North Carolina and they sold me the parts no problem. You should be able to find one near you . I can't remember if I looked at the Prestolite website for distributors or if I did an internet search. I know it wasn't too hard to find someone willing to sell parts.

You would need a bearing puller or press for that. It would be a lot less fun than rebuilding the electrics.

Nice work! Glad to hear you got it patched up.

If the regulator is toast that would explain the blown diodes. Look for part # 8RG3063.

That was the same date range mine was "reset". I wonder if there were a batch of bad rectifiers that came out. The alternator looked to have been rebuilt and everything looked new. Except for the parts that blowed up.

Indeed. The alternator is a Perstolite. Parts are readily available for them inexpensively. I would recommend testing the alternator and repairing it instead of replacing it. One of the generators I bought had no charging and it was fresh out of Tier 2 reset. I pulled the alternator apart and...

Sounds like its time to tear into the alternator.

Can you offer a bit more info about what voltages you are seeing on the different alternator terminals?